PEARS. 611 



sun, and strewed with green specks. Eye, small, set in an uneven, 

 - shallow basin. Stalk, two inches and a half long, curved, and 

 obliquely inserted in a knobbed cavity. Flesh, yellow, crisp, juicy, 

 sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 



An inferior fruit ; ripe in September. The tree is tender, subject to 

 canker, and requires a wall to bring the fruit to maturity. If grown as 

 a bush tree, the fruit is good for culinary purposes. 



SUMMEE CEASANNE {Crasanne d'i'te').— Fruit, small, roundish, 

 and flattened. Skin, pale yellow, entirely covered with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet. Eye, wide open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, an 

 inch and a half long. Flesh, half-melting, very juicy, sweet, and 

 aromatic. 



A good early pear; ripe in the end of August and beginning of 

 September. 



SUMMEE DOYENNE {Doyenne d'tlU; Doyenne de Juillet; Joli- 

 mont; Boi Jolimont). — Fruit, small, two inches wide and one and 

 three-quarters high ; roundish, or roundish turbinate. Skin, smooth, 

 and wherever shaded of a clear greenish yellow, changing as it ripens 

 to a fine lemon-yeUow, and on the side next the sun covered with a red 

 blush, and strewed with grey dots. Eye, small, half open, set in a 

 shallow plaited basin. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, not 

 depressed. Flesh, yellowish white, half melting, and very juicy, sweet 

 and pleasantly flavoured. 



An excellent early pear ; ripe in the end of July, but requires to be 

 gathered before it becomes yellow, otherwise it soon becomes mealy, 

 and is quite insipid. The tree is hardy, and a good bearer. 



The origin of this pear haa caused a good deal of discussion among pomologistsj 

 but I do not see how there need be any doubt or difficulty about it. In Van Sons' 

 catalogue, at p. 28, we find " Doyennfi d'Bte ; par nous." In the preface this expres- 

 sion "par nous" is stated to signify "que ce iiruit est un r^sultat de nos essals." 

 This being the case, we cannot suppose that Van Mous would have claimed a fruit 

 he did not raise. Diel acknowledges having received it from Van Mons in his 

 Kemobstsorten, vol. xix. ; and in his Sffstematisches Verzeichniss, 2 Fort., p. 90, he 

 describes it under the name of Brilsseler Sommerdechantsbime with the synonyme 

 Doyenn6 d'Ete, V.M. This distinction of placing Van Mons' initials in con- 

 junction with it was, no doubt, to distinguish it from that other Doyenne d'Bie 

 which he had described in vol. iii., p. 39, of the Kernobstsorten, and which is a 

 totally different fruit, of medium size, with no red on the sunny side, and which 

 ripens in the end of August. This must have been raised by Van Mons at an 

 early period, for Diel mentions it among his best pears in 1812. 



SUMMEE FEANC, EEAL {Bergamotte de la Bemrier ; Beurre 

 d'Ete; Bergamotte d'Ete; Coule Soif ; Fin Or d'Ete; Franc Real 

 d'Ete; Oreat Mouthwater ; Qros Mieet d'Ete ; Gfrosse MouUle Bouehe ; 

 Hdtiveau Blanc ; Milan Blanc ; Milan de la Beuvriere ; Royale). — 

 Fruit, above medium size, two inches and a half wide, and about the same 

 in height ; turbinate. Skin, smooth, pale yellowish green, strewed with 

 numerous brown and green dots, and tinged with brownish red next 

 the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a small undulating basin. 



